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What kind of reaction did Karl Marx want from his readers?

What kind of reactions did he want, and what did he write to get these reactions?

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  • 7 years ago

    He expected his readers to come to understand the mechanisms, and (in his mind) evils of capitalism (Das Kapital); to organise along (working) class lines to overthrow corrupt capitalist / bourgeois ruling classes (the Communist Manifesto); to be aware of the dangers of Bonapartism (The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon) and to realise that the proletariat has a common culture, whatever country they come from or whatever language they speak - he expected the working class to achieve 'class-conciousness' (nearly all of his works)

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